A Composer’s Sketchbook | The 1970s Track 18 | Pastoral Song

Though a lot of my early music is pretty raucous, several of my tunes from this time were very slow-paced, gentle, and pacific.

This electric guitar piece with voice but no lyrics progresses through some unusual chords, though it is hard to hear them due to slowly playing the notes of the chord individually, rather than as a complete chord all at once.

Add to this the vocal and the muddy sound of the original cassette recording and the chords that were the reason I recorded this one are almost lost.

Listen carefully, though, and you can just about hear them.

Written and recorded in the early 1970s.